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So I popped over to WotC to see what the hype is about and all I can find is "Log in or click here to join" Why do I want to join? Whats so cool about being a geek among geeks? A couple articles and a T-Shirt? Are they vague because its really nothing or is it just bad site design? Really, sell me on this.
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Right now, D&D Insider includes the near useless electronic versions of Dungeon and Dragon plus their forums (through horrid Gleemax). After 4E is released, it is supposed to include a 4E character generator program and a virtual game table. It will no longer be free at this time, but will require a subscription.
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Right now, D&D Insider includes the near useless electronic versions of Dungeon and Dragon plus their forums (through horrid Gleemax). After 4E is released, it is supposed to include a 4E character generator program and a virtual game table. It will no longer be free at this time, but will require a subscription.
Like PDF or all electronic 3.5 books/feats/skills and the like? Or just basic stuff?
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At the moment, it's more of a non-existent thing. It doesn't seem to be getting any support from WotC yet, and a lot of what they have posted so far has been fairly poorly done pre-4E hype rather than useful material. Plus, in my opinion, the web design is incredibly poor (as far as I can tell, it's impossible to figure out if anything new has been added without clicking through the whole site, plus it's so busy-looking that it's a turn-off).
After 4th Edition launches in June, it's supposed to have a bunch of new options, including PDFs of any 4th Ed. books you may buy, a digital game table for playing over the internet with distant friends, and more. If their past statements are accurate, there will be a monthly charge (somewhere in the $10 to $12 range?) plus a "nominal fee" ($2 to $3) per PDF of the books you've bought. Right now, it's in "free preview" mode, but of course, all the 4th Edition stuff isn't there yet.
Hopefully they'll extend the "free preview" to let us see what it can do when it actually can do something, as what they've shown so far has been so badly supported as to be, again, a turn-off. I guess at this moment it's more of a "wait-and-see" than anything useful...
If you join you be INDSIDE. That's right, INSIDE. Not outside, out of the loop like us, but INSIDE. I mean that's where we all want to be right? INSIDE!
Just thinking about it is givin' me the wood baby.
So I popped over to WotC to see what the hype is about and all I can find is "Log in or click here to join" Why do I want to join? Whats so cool about being a geek among geeks? A couple articles and a T-Shirt? Are they vague because its really nothing or is it just bad site design? Really, sell me on this.
I just wanted to clairify that it currently includes online magazines of Dragon and Dungeon and not an electronic version of D&D.
Would you trust us if we just said, "Its a bad thing, and if you look at it, you'll go blind."
If only because of the terrible color scheme of gleemax